Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
• 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
• 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
• A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
• A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
• A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
• A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
• A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
• A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.
• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
• A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
• A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
• A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
• A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
• A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
• A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
• A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
• A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
• A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
• A wise traveler never despises his own country.
• Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
• Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
• Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
• Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.